#ok

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful. ↗

— Robert Pozen

#every #figure #helpful #hurtful #look

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#betrayal #build #deaths #edged #fight

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alight #almost #become #books #city

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#hey #him #i #inside #just

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

#i #many #read #scripts #should

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#art #capable #look #many #people

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #came #creatures #decided

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#english #i #language #look #only

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#been #books #computer #eclectic #extremely